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BRITISH JOURNAL OF SPORTS MEDICINE
Volume 44, Issue 13, Pages 924-933Publisher
BMJ PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1136/bjsm.2009.058701
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- National Institutes of Health [HL67350]
- NATIONAL HEART, LUNG, AND BLOOD INSTITUTE [R01HL067350] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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Emerging evidence supports a link between neighbourhood built environment and physical activity Systematic methodologies for characterising neighbourhood built environment are needed that take advantage of available population information such as census-level demographics Based on transportation and urban planning literatures, an integrated index for operationalising walkability using parcel-level information is proposed Validity of the walkability index is examined through travel surveys among areas examined in the Neighborhood Quality of Life Study (NQLS), a study investigating built environment correlates of adults' physical activity
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